Tidelands (The Fairmile #1) - Philippa Gregory
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Historical Fiction
Tidelands / Philippa Gregory, Release Date 20th August 2019 Narrated By Louise Brealey Unabridged ; Runtime 15 hours 29 min, England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . ., Midsummers Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands the marshy landscape of the south coast., Alinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life., Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinors ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. This is the time of witch-mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with he
